"I say it every year, but this is,
I think, the best season yet. I don't know how I keep saying that!" Timothy
Omundson said in a phone interview.

Of course, "Psych" teased season
eight with its much-anticipated musical episode right before Christmas. Fans
loved it, and Omundson and his on-screen partner, Maggie Lawson, couldn't have
been happier with the response.

"I'm overwhelmed by it," he said.
"I'm overwhelmed by the fan reaction - I think we all are."

"I was overwhelmed," she said. "I
think, for us, it was so much fun because we really came together as a group to
do that. I feel like it was seven seasons in the making, basically. And I feel
like we had such an experience doing it, it was sort of nice that USA made it a
big event and it wasn't part of the regular season. It sort of had its own
time. I thought that was really cool."

"Yeah, I think our fans really
appreciated that, as well, giving them that bridge to the season, and such a
big episode to sort of enjoy," Omundson said. "And watching it - it had been so
long since we shot it - I forgot how good it was. I'm thinking, 'Wow, we're
really pulling this sucker off!' "

When this season began, Lassiter
and Jules found themselves working for a new Santa Barbara Police Department
chief, Harris Trout. Much to their chagrin, he wasted no time in demoting
senior detective Lassiter and promoting junior detective O'Hara.

"For me, that was really fun to
play," Omundson said. "It's always fun when you get to play something so
different, and that was just a ball."

"You've probably heard us talk
about it over the years, about 'Badass Lassiter' and 'Badass Juliet,' and I get
very excited when I get to be 'Badass Juliet,' " Lawson said. "It was really,
really fun."

Two weeks ago, "Psych" put a
different twist on "Cloudy ... With A Chance of Murder" with "Remake A.K.A.
Cloudy ...With a Chance of Improvement."

"It was really fun to do the
flashback episode and sort of go back to what that relationship was (in) season
one," Omundson said. "It was funny to sort of reflect and say, 'Who were we,
and how did we play these beats?' Then to have the role reversal now, it was
very fun."

Each week, the "Psych" stars have
tweeted back and forth with fans during episodes. Omundson and Lawson have
become quite popular on Twitter, netting countless mentions from "Psych-Os" each
day.

"Oh my god, they mean everything,"
Lawson said. "They have been the most dedicated, excited, supportive, wonderful
group of people, group of fans - or 'Psych-Os,' as they call themselves - that
they're just all sort of, I think, part of it with us," Lawson said. "I think
Twitter has been fun because we've been able to sort of connect with them,
instead of just, you know, say, at Comic-Con, or places where they all a lot of
times show up.

"It's a forum where we get to be
connected, and we can thank them. I think our marketing team and the people on
the social media side of 'Psych' for the show have done a really good job of
keeping us all connected."

"We've been able to kind of get to
know them a little bit, which I think is really cool," she added.

"We all, everybody associated with
the show, realizes that we would not be where we are without this group of
people watching the show," Omundson said. "Twitter has been just an amazing
thing. Just over the last couple years, when we've all sort of really embraced
it - now the fact that even James (Roday) is on Twitter, Hell has frozen over.
But, there's something really cool about the instantaneous feedback, and how
this social platform has really allowed not only the fans to connect with each
other, but to connect with us, and us to them.

"And when an episode airs, to get
that instantaneous, you know, almost gratification, satisfaction, that people
are digging what we do, that's never happened before. That was impossible. So
now, it's a very real thing. It's very tangible. And, like almost everything
now is live tweeted, because one of us is going to be on commenting in the back
while watching the show - and they're all watching it together, you know,
virtually. And it's really been an interesting experience for me. I've really
embraced it, and come to like it a lot."

"Psych" airs this Wednesday at 9
p.m. on the USA Network. In the episode, Gus takes lead on a new case, while
Shawn is forced to play sidekick.

Following two reruns (thank you,
Olympics), the show returns Feb. 26 with a new episode directed by cast member
Kirsten Nelson.